The bioterials century -- The Twenty-First century: the age of bioterials -- Conquering matter: explorations in the cellular and subatomic universe -- Bioeconomics: the new laws of bioterials -- The first law of bioeconomics: the daily doubling of knowledge -- The second law of bioeconomics: the global scope of bioterials is inversely proportional to its subatomic scale -- The third law of bioeconomics: accelerating vertical growth rates -- New materials: every atom a factory -- Designer genes: re-engineering the body -- Betting the "pharma": the biomedical complex -- Betting the farm: the bionic farmer -- Financing the dream: the biocapitalists -- Bioethics: the Chinese wall -- Afterword: 2005, the end of the beginning -- Appendix: statement of principles.